I Forgive Him
Kevin McCullough
I was stunned. When I first heard Erika Kirk’s words at the memorial service, they landed on me like a freight train. Could I have forgiven the man who took my beloved from me? Barely. Could I have admitted such a thing to close friends? Possibly, though reluctantly. But to stand in public—before television cameras, mourners, political leaders, and enemies—and say it out loud? Never.
Yet that is what Erika did.
And it wasn’t weakness. It wasn’t naiveté. It wasn’t some pre-scripted “Christianese” line that she thought would play well in the press. It was Spirit-filled bravery. It was the unexplainable, unpredictable, almost otherworldly reality of what happens when Jesus Christ so thoroughly transforms a life that what should be impossible becomes not just possible, but inevitable.
That’s why one prominent pastor said, “These politicians and public figures are proclaiming the gospel more boldly than many pastors.” Erika proved that statement true. She preached the gospel by living it, with words that could only have come from a heart reshaped by Jesus.
Because Jesus is unlike anyone else in history. Things happen because of Him that no one can expect, predict, or explain.
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